Crashing on missing network adapters

[Alan Barrow]

The hardware is missing :)

How about not specifying the network, then the install will throw up the
network config screen, select [*] dhcp and you are off, it will not
display if you do not have the hardware inplace at the time.

After the install kudzu will pick up the pcmcia adapter when it is
inserted.

Otherwise build 2 DVD's. One without networking and one without.

Cheers Alan


On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 00:10 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Ok, I'm having a hard time with something (happens to me a lot).
> 
> I have a ks.cfg file (on a custom installer DVD) that looks like:
> 
> ...
> network --device eth0 --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp
> network --device ath0 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp
> ...
> 
> For a variety of computers, some of which have a wireless PCMCIA
> card and some of which don't.  Or might have, on a transient basis.
> 
> I tried to install on a computer without such a card, figuring that it
> would just prep the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0 interface
> and leave it at that.
> 
> Well, no such luck.  It failed the install and I had to reboot the
> install...
> take out the line from the DVD image (burn a new DVD, etc) and
> retry.
> 
> Is this a little overly brittle?  It seems to me that the absence of a
> network adapter (especially one that isn't enabled at boot-time by
> default!) isn't a critical/fatal issue.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> -Philip
> 
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